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David Claerbout at Konschthal Esch
Provence.st Newsletter

David Claerbout: 5 hours, 50 days, 50 years at Konschthal Esch
Elephant Journal

The woodcarver and the forest
la revue dossier de l’Art, no 332, 2025

Dark Optics: David Claerbout’s Unstable Images
Finn Blythe, Ocula, October 22, 2025

Künstler David Claerbout. “Du darfts dich nicht in die Technologie verlieben” monopol, October 20, 2025

‘Utiliser le IA m’a révélé ma faiblesse’, Conversation Aurore Vaucelle
La Libre Belgique, June 18, 2025

La mesure du temps selon David Claerbout
Jean-Marie Wynants, Le Soir, July 8, 2025


Longreads


Contemporary Art against the Spectacular Image of History, Tal Sterngast

Theory and Criticsm, No 55, Jerusalem, Winter 2021 

Slow aesthetics and deanthropomorphism as ecocritical strategies in David Claerbout’s ‘The pure necessity’, Toni Ross

The Official International Journal of Contemporary Humanities, 2020

David Claerbout in conversation with Thomas D. Trummer

Trummer, Thomas D./Kunsthaus Bregenz (ed.), 'David Claerbout', Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2018, ill. (exh.cat.)

Millenarian Cinema: David Claerbout and Olympia, Steven Jacobs

Millenium Film Journal, no 65, Spring 2017, pp. 8-11, ill.

Ein Riese, Der Schläft. Ein Gespräch zwischen David Claerbout und Andreas Fiedler

Fiedler, Andreas (ed.), 'David Claerbout. OLYMPIA (The Real-Time Disintegration of the Berlin Olympic Stadiumover the Course of a Thousand Years)', Berlin: KINDL/Sternberg Press, 2017, exh. cat. (ill.)

Drawing Time: On David Claerbout’s Notations of Presence, Christian Viveros-Fauné

McMonagle, Christine/Sean Kelly Gallery (eds.), 'David Claerbout. Drawings and studies.’, Hatje Cantz Verlag/Sean Kelly Gallery, 2015, ill.

David Claerbout: Porous Temporalities, Mathilde Roman

On Stage. The Theatrical Dimension of Video Image (intellect Bristol UK/ Chicago USA), 2016


La Ritournelle du motif, Jean-Charles Vergne

Vergne, Jean-Charles, 'David Claerbout', Clermont-Ferrand: FRAC Auvergne, 2015, ill. (exh.cat.)


Giving Time, Thierry Davila

Davila, Thierry, 'Shadow Pieces. David Claerbout', mamco: Geneva, 2015, ill.

David Claerbout. Disturbing Time. Multiplying the Instant, Saretto Cincinelli 'David Claerbout', MART Museuo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto/Electa Publishers, 2012 (exh.cat.)


The Time-matter and Its Perceptual Paradoxes in the Work of David Claerbout, Philippe Dubois

'David Claerbout', MART Museuo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto/Electa Publishers, 2012 (exh.cat.)


The Photographic Now: David Claerbout’s Vietnam,
Ingrid Hölzl

Intermédialités/Intermediality, Reproduire/Reproducing, Montréal, no. 17, 2011, pp. 131-145, ill.

Wie sehen?, Raymond Bellour

AK Zeitschrift für Ästhetik und Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft, Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, Vol. 55, no. 1, 2010

David Claerbout’s White House,
Jean-Christoph Amman

UBS art banking news, July/August 2006, ill.

David Claerbout: uncertain eye. A conversation with Inka Graeve Ingelmann

Graeve Ingelmann, Inka (ed.), 'David Claerbout. uncertain eye', München: Pinakothek der Moderne, 2010 (exh.cat.)


Entretien David Claerbout - Christine Van Assche

Van Assche, Christine (ed.), 'The Shape of Time', Zürich: JRP Ringier/Centre Pompidou/MIT List Center of Visual Arts/De Pont Foundation/Kunstmuseum St. Gallen/Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2008 (exh.cat.)


David Claerbout, Bordeaux Piece, 2004, Dirk Snauwaert

Van Assche, Christine (ed.), 'The Shape of Time', Zürich: JRP Ringier/Centre Pompidou/MIT List Center of Visual Arts/De Pont Foundation/Kunstmuseum St. Gallen/Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, 2008 (exh.cat.)

Slowing Down. Stillness, time and the digital image, Joanne Lowry

Portfolio, Edinburgh, no. 37, June 2003, pp. 51-53, ill.

David Claerbout, James Clegg

Giblin, Tessa; Clegg, James, ‘David Claerbout’, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2018, ill. (exh. cat.)

Now in the Past, Ingrid Hölzl

Marie , Remi; Hölzl, Ingrid, ‘Softimage. Towards a New Theory of the Digital Image’, intellect: Bristol/Chicago, 2015

David Claerbout’s Indecisive Moments, Erika Balsom

Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context, and Enquiry, no. 32, Spring 2013, pp. 82-93, ill.

It has as not been-it is. The signaletic transformation of photography, Mette Sandbye

Journal of Aesthetics & Culture, Stockholm, vol 4, 2012

Obscurity and Stillness: Potentiality in the Moving Image, Catherine Fowler

artjournal, Spring 2013

Achronic Utopias, Peter Eeley

Pacher, Jeanette/Secession (ed.), 'Diese Sonne strahlt immer', Vienna: Secession, Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen, 2012 (exh.cat.)

David Claerbout in conversation with Lynn Cooke

Kunstverein Hannover (ed.), 'David Claerbout', Brussels: A Prior, 2002 (exh.cat.)













Interviews / Writings 



The Inflammable Image - Thoughts in Wildfire
Musea Brugge, Till Holger-Borchert (ed.), 'Memling Now', 2020 (exh.cat.)


This Sun is Always Shining

'O Sole Mio', Parasol unit foundation for contemporary art: London, 2021

Goya’s Black Paintings
De uil in de grot, Barbara Baert, 2019

The Silence of the Lens

e-flux, no 73, May 2016, ill.

Jeff Wall’s ‘Adrian Walker, artist, drawing from a specimen in a laboratory in the Department of Anatomy at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 1992’

Maria Schnyder (ed.), 'De Pont Museum', De Pont, 2019

The video, performed

ArtReview, London, September 2014, pp. 52-53, ill.

Alte Meister, Von Neuen Geliebt: zu Jan Vermeers “Herr und Dame beim Wein”

Monopol, Berlin, June 2013, p. 30

Discipline. ‘Four Persons Standing’

Bischoff, Ulrich, Lozo, Katarina (eds.), 'The Power of the Avant-Garde. Now and then', Brussels: Lannoo Publishers/BOZAR BOOKS, 2016, exh.cat. (ill.) Lannoo Publishers/BOZAR BOOKS, 2016

Sunrise Portfolio
Peill Stiftung/nicolai Verlag, 2012

Pursuing the Madness of the Image: A Conversation with David Claerbout, Ory Dessau
Metropolis M, Feature, September 23, 2021

L’image, cette ennemie
par Etienne Hatt
artpress, no 462, January 2019, pp. 36-43, ill.

Ik bouw aan een cultuur van inefficiëntie. Beeldverhaal David Claerbout, Johan Faes
De Standaard, February 13, 2017, p. 32-39. ill.

Appropriate Behavior
Elephant Magazine, issue 30, Spring 2017, pp. 102-107, ill.

David Claerbout. Schaulager Basel, Elisa Lammer
Spike, Views, no 53, 2017

Countering the Classic. Cheeky David Claerbout. Interview with Anna Sansom
DAMN, no 59, 2016, ill.

David Claerbout on His Time Based ‘Olympia’ Installation
Sleek Magazine, 2016

Le bruit des images. Conversation avec David Claerbout, Marie Murraciole
Les Cahiers du Musée national d'art moderne, Paris, no. 94, winter 2005/2006, pp. 124-134, ill.

David Claerbout:“I sculpt in duration”, A Will Brown
www.studiointernational.comMay 2016, ill.

Interview with Video Artist David Claerbout
www.aestheticamagazine.com, March 24, 2016, ill.

Interview with David Claerbout
mmk notes, 'RAY 2015 IMAGINE REALITY’ Fotografieprojekte Frankfurt / RheinMain, June 5, 2015

Achteruitkijken door de voorruit. Interview David Claerbout, Isolde Vanhee
Rekto Verso, Gent, no 62, June-September 2014, pp. 62-67, ill.

“The Act”, on photography The Crooked Path, BOZAR Books/Ludion, 2011
 
David Claerbout. The incredible essence of Time, Silvano Magnanaro
Drome Magazine, Rome, no. 17, Spring 2010, pp. 48-52, ill.

Wie haben Sie das gemacht, David Claerbout?
Monopol, no. 7, July 2010, pp. 22-23, ill.

David Claerbout. Q/A, David Ulrichs
Modern Painters, New York, May 2011, pp. 64-66, ill.

Ori Gersht puts five questions to David Claerbout
Modern Painters, London, May 2009, p. 80, ill.












Podcasts



Come Along!
with host Sharon Lin
Radio Taiwan International

Berg en Dal
Interview with Pat Donnez (in Dutch)
Klara on Spotify

Art Podcast
David Claerbout / Olympia
Rachel Hurst
Samstag Museum of Art, 2020

Cera Art Podcast
Interview with Eva Wittocx (in Dutch)
Cera Art Podcast on Spotify

Yale University Radio

Brainard Carey
May 2, 2022

Klara Radio
Interview with Chantal Pattyn (in Dutch)
Klara, 2021

Klara Radio
Interview with Nicky Aerts (in Dutch)
Klara, 2021

Interview with Chantal Pattyn (about The Woodcaver and The Forest, in Dutch)
Klara, 2025

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Biography / Bibliography


David Claerbout au micro de Pascal Goffaux, Chroniques de la matinale
Musiq3, RTBF, January 12 (in French, 37 min)

Pascal Goffaux - La Matinale: David Claerbout expose à la galerie Greta Meert
Musiq3, RTBF, January 12 (in French, 6 min)

Jean-Marie Wynants, David Claerbout chez Greta Meert, entre le calme et l'effroi
Le Soir, January 8, 2024

Piero Bisello, David Claerbout at Galerie Greta Meert
Glean, December 2023

Radio Interview with Chantal Pattyn (in Dutch)

Klara, 2023

Roger Pierre Turine, La force des images de David Claerbout

La Libre Belgique, November 22, 2023

Bernard Roisin, David Claerbout: “Je fais du temps un volume”

L’Echo, November 23, 2023

Isolde Van Hee,De Oorverdovende knal van de stilte Knack Focus, December 6, 2023


Tamara Beheydt, Videokunstenaar David Claerbout toont nieuw werk “Ik volhard in de traagheid” De Tijd, November 30, 2023


Ines Minten, Als het blad terug naar de kruin vliegt
Interview, De Standaard, November 27, 2023 (in Dutch)

Vincent Warne, Dark Optics, David Claerbout at Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, Millenium Film Journal

David Claerbout over Rachmaninov, Espresso, Klara, April 1, 2023


Olga Shishko, Virtual Academy of the Pushkin Museum, Moscow

Sandra Smallenburg, NRC, November 29, 2022

Mathilde Roman, L’Art Meme, no 88, 2022

Federica Barrios Carbonell, Musée Magazine, May 19, 2022

Brita Sachs, ‘Was mag aus dem Kind geworden sein?’, in: Frankfurter Algemeine Zeitung, April 23, 2022, ill.

Duncan Wooldridge, 1000 Words Magazine, April 2022

JJ Charlesworth, ArtReview, 7 April 2022

Jozefien Van Beek, ‘Een virtueel vliegtuig uit het verleden én de toekomst’, in: De Standaard, November 19, 2021, ill.

Christophe Verbiest, ‘Vier maanden werk voor vijf minuten film’, in: De Morgen, November 18, 2021, ill.

2020 Adelaide // International/Samstag. Curators Erica Green and Gillian Brown, 2020 (exh.cat.)

Chloé Wolifson, '2020 Adelaide // International. Samstag Museum of Art University of South Australia', Artlink.com.au, published March 29, 2020

Kieron Marchese, 'david claerbout dehumanizes jungle book’s animals in „the pure necessity“', www.designboom.com, published january 29, 2020

Julie Enckell Julliard, 'Le Balancier du Funambule', in: ROVEN, Revue critique sur le dessin contemporain, no 14, 2019, pp. 46-49, ill.

Jürgen Kleindienst, 'Zurück in die Finsternis: David Claerbout über eine Zukunft ohne Licht', in: Leipziger Volkszeitung, January 18, 2019, ill.

Sophia Züricher, 'Geen fotograaf, filmmaker of digitaal schilder', in: Het Parool, Amsterdam November 24, 2018, ill.

Angelika Drnek, 'Unsere rasante Bildkultur macht Angst, sagt der bedeutende Medienkünstler David Claerbout –und sucht nach einem neuen Verhältnis von Leben und Zeit', in: NZZ, Zürich, September 19, 2018, ill.

Ginevra Bria, 'David Claerbout. Moving images humanization', in: domusweb.it, published August 8, 2018

‘David Claerbout: Six Major Works’, Talbot Rice Gallery
arts-news

Jutta Berger, 'Videokünstler David Claerbout setzt auf „Dschungelbuch“-Figuren', in: Der Standard, July 17, 2018, ill.

David Claerbout, 'O Silencio Da Objetiva', in: ZUM Revista de Fotografia, Sao Paolo, no 14, 2018, pp. 142-151, ill.

Thijs Demeulemeester, 'Jungle Zoek', in: De Tijd Sabato, May 26, 2018, pp. 20-23, ill.

Johan-Frederik
Hel Guedj,
'David Claerbout l’Image du temps', in: L’Echo, Brussels, May 26, 2018, p. 52, ill.

Jeanie Ambrosio, ‘A Monumental Young Elvis Made Digital. Guest post by Jeanie Ambrosio’, USFCAM Blog, posted September 26, 2017
Stefanie Manthey, 'David Claerbout –Real Time',in: Kunstbulletin, Zurich, October 2017, pp. 44-51, ill.

Adrian Dürrwang, 'Ein Projekt auf 1000 Jahre angelegt', in: ensuite Zeitschrift für Kultur & Kunst, Bern, September 2017, p. 64, ill.

David Claerbout in conversation with Chantal Pattyn, radio interview, Klara, Pompidou, 2018

'David Claerbout (review KINDL)', in: Wall Street International, April 30, 2017, ill.

Emily Steer, 'Appropriate Behaviour', in: Elephant Magazine, issue 30, Spring 2017, pp. 102-107, ill.

Christophe Verbiest,'Walt Disneys zoo van zombies', in: De Morgen Cultuur, February 1, 2017, p. 18, ill.

Mirthe Berentsen, ‘David Claerbout on his Time Based ‘Olympia’ Installation’, Sleek Magazine, 2016
Adela Yawitz, ‘A Computer-Generated Coliseum that Will Disintegrate for 1,000 Years’, Hyperallergic.com, December 8, 2016
Sebastian Frenzel, ‘Das 1000-jährige Video. David Claerbout in Berlin’ Monopol, September 11, 2016.

Giuseppe Marasco, Giuseppe, 'Magical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography, Parasol Unit –art review', in: Hackney Citizen, London, June 7, 2016, ill.

Rudolf Frieling, 'The American Room', in: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 360°. Views on the Collection, Bloch, Judith, Stein, Suzanne (eds.), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2016, pp. 20-21, ill.

‘Il était une fois David Claerbout’, www.narthex.fr, published July 1, 2016

Paul Carey-Kent, 'Review: Magical Surfaces: The Uncanny in Contemporary Photography', in: Photomonitor, April 21, 2016, ill.

Ian Epstein, Ian, 'David Claerbout Stages a 1000-Year Battle between Architecture and Time, in: Artsy.net, March 23rd, 2016, ill.

Stefanie Hessler, 'David Claerbout. Marabouparken, Stockholm 9 October –14 February' (review), in: ArtReview, London, January/February 2016, p. 144, ill.

Aiden Dunne, “Each is never less than watchable”, in:  The Irish Times, 29 September 2015 www.billionjournal.com

Man, Dragon and Death: The Glory of Saint George, Joanna Leroy
Busine, Laurent; Sellink, Manfred, 'Man, Dragon and Death: The Glory of Saint George', Grand-Hornu: MAC’s/Mercatorfonds, 2015, ill. (exh.cat.)

‘Interview with David Claerbout. Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Venezia', Matteo Motti
atpdiary, January 2015

Katharina Holderegger Rossier, 'Genève: David Claerbout', in: Kunstbulletin, Zürich, September 2015, ill.

Elisabeth Chardon, 'Exposé à Genève, David Claerbout étire et mêle le temps des images', in: Le Temps, Geneva, June 11, 2015, ill.

Julie Dodon, 'Au temps pour moi, David Claerbout', in: magdimanche de la Montagne, April 19, 2015, ill.

Jean-Marc Colard, ‘La revanche des spectateurs’, in: Les inrockuptibles, February 16, 2015

‘David Claerbout - Exposition au FRAC Auvergne’
Reportage et interview FRAC Auvergne, 2015

FRAC Auvergne Interview Jean-Charles VergneMosaïque no. 10, ITW Radio France, 2015

Peter Geimer, 'Image and Art. Notes on a relationship', in: Texte zur Kunst, September 2014, 24 Jahrgang, Heft 95, pp. 124-139, ill.

Katinka Fischer, 'Unter der arrangierten Oberfläche', in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, no. 71, March 25, 2013, p. 36, ill.

ART 21: Artist to Artist
Sharjah Biennale 11, interview with David Claerbout, 2013

Valérie Duponchelle, Valérie, 'La Biennale de Sydney, l’art des antipodes', in: Le Figaro, Paris, April 3, 2014

Gottfried Knapp, Gottfried, 'Hallräume, in denen die Gedanken wandern', in: Süddeutsche Zeitung, April 8, 2013, p. 9, ill.

J.J. Charlesworth, David Claerbout: The Time That Remains. Parasol Unit, London, ArtReview, no 67, September 2012, p. 125

Andreas Spiegl,  'David Claerbout', in: Eikon, Vienna, no 78, 2012, pp. 12-17, ill.

Adrian Searle, Adrian, 'Adrian Searle encounters... a teacup falling 70 times in a 14-hour film', in: The Guardian online, May 2012

Almuth Spiegler, Almuth, 'Lichtspiele in der dunklen Secession', in: Die Presse, May 3, 2012

Eugenia Bell, ‘David Claerbout. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’, in Frieze Magazine, September 28, 2011

Guy Duplat, 'David Claerbout nous offre le temps', in: La Libre Belgique, Brussels, February 17, 2011

Pierre Sterckx, 'David Claerbout: le temps qui ne s’écoule pas', in: Le soir, Bruxelles, March, 30, 2011, ill.

J.S. Marcus, 'Still Images Turn Into a Moving Experience', in: Wall Street Journal, March 11, 2011, ill.

Patricia Maloney, ‘Architecture of Narrative. David Claerbout. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art’, artpractical, 2011

Saskia Isabella Maria Korsten, ‘Reversed Remediation. David Claerbout’s ‘Sections of a Happy Moment’,
www.nightglobe.com, January 2011

Claude Lorent, 'Le temps de l’attente et du silence', in : La libre Belgique, Brussels, April 9 to 15, 2010, p. 4, ill.

Sophia Phoca, 'PhotoFilm: Stillness and Movement', in: Art Monthly, London, no. 336, May 2010, p. 39

Ossian Ward,  'Extrasensorial. David Claerbout', in: Art in America, New York, June/July 2009, ill.McLean-Ferris, Laura, 'Exhibitionist: The best art shows to see this week', in The Guardian, London, June 12, 2009

Eva Scharrer, 'David Claerbout. Kunstmuseum St. Gallen (review)', in : Artforum, New York, November 2008, p. 368, ill.

Nuit Banai, 'David Claerbout (Boston MIT List Visual Arts Center)', in: Modern Painters, London, April 2008, ill.

Daniel Völke, ‘David Claerbout umtanzt in New York das Geheimnis des schönen Augenblicks', in: Monopol, Berlin, May 2008, p. 140, ill.
Barbara Basting, 'Von der Kunst, einen Glücksmoment festzuhalten', in: Tagesanzeiger, Zürich, June 9, 2008, ill.

Gerhard Mack, 'Das Glück der Täuschung', in: NZZ am Sonntag, Zürich, July 6, 2008, p. 58, ill.

Françoise Parfait, 'Pas si vite! Brefs souvenirs de durées vidéographique', in: L’art même, no. 29, 2007, ill.

Valérie Da Costa, 'David Claerbout, un temps pluriel', in: Artpress, Paris, August 2007, ill.

Van Bogaert, Pieter, 'Territories of Time', in: <H>ART, March 25, 2010, p. 27

Gérard Lefort, 'Claerbout projections privées', in: Libérations, Paris, October 9, 2007

Ossian Ward,'David Claerbout's violent assault on the eyes', in: The Art Newspaper. Art Basel Daily Edition, June 13, 2006, p. 8, ill.

Robert Reed, 'David Claerbout captures time on tape', in: The Daily Yomiuri, Tokyo, November 25, 2006, p. 20, ill.
T.J. Demos (ed.), 'Vitamin Ph: New Perspectives in Photography', London: Phaidon Press, 2006, pp. 54-55, ill.

David Ulrichs, 'Projections: Interview with David Claerbout', in: Lapiz, vol. XXV, no. 219, January 2007, pp. 56-71, cover, ill.

Cathryn Drake, 'David Claerbout', in : Artforum, New York, May, 2005, p. 259, ill.

Yoan Van Parys, 'Might It Just Be That Time Passes? David Claerbout', in: Camera Austria, no. 91, 2005, p. 91, ill.

Valérie Lamontagne, 'David Claerbout: le spectre du temps', in: Ciel Variable, Montréal, no. 67, 2005, pp. 24-27, ill.

David Green, 'Profile: David Claerbout', in Contemporary Magazine, London, no. 71, 2005

Ralf Christofori, 'David Claerbout',in: Frieze, London, Vol. 90, April 2005, pp. 117-119, ill.

Thomas Wulffen, 'David Claerbout', in: Kunstforum, Ruppichteroth, Vol. 175, April-May 2005, pp. 265-266, ill.

Janet Koplos, 'David Claerbout at the Museum Boijmans', in: Art in America, New York, February 2004

Douglas Heingartner, 'David Claerbout', in: Flash Art, Milan, 2004

Martin Zeyn, 'Digitales Daumenkino', in: Frankfurter Rundschau, Frankfurt, December 21, 2004, ill.
Samuel Herzog, Samuel, 'Und sie bewegt sich doch. Medienkunst aus der Sammlung Goetz im ZKM Karlsruhe',in: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zürich, January 24, 2004

David Green, 'DavidClaerbout' (review), in: Photoworks, Brighton, May/October 2004, p. 66, ill.

Niklas Maak, 'Vor Sonnenaufgang', in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, September 11, 2004, p. 35, ill.
Martin Engler, 'Im Schatten der Bilder', in: Kunstbulletin, Zurich, no. 3, March 2003, pp. 32-37, ill.

Paul Amitai, 'David Claerbout', in: New Art Examiner, Chicago, vol. 29, no. 5, May-June 2002, ill.


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